Counter: Sean Fitzgerald
Brant - 7
Wood Duck - 94
American Wigeon - 18
American Black Duck - 81
Northern Pintail - 3
Green-winged Teal - 10
dabbler sp. - 39
Greater Scaup - 2
Lesser Scaup - 53
Surf Scoter - 1,039
White-winged Scoter - 4
Black Scoter - 501
scoter sp. - 1,271
Long-tailed Duck - 13
Bufflehead - 43
Hooded Merganser - 1
Red-breasted Merganser - 18
Red-throated Loon - 132
Common Loon - 10
Northern Gannet - 16,946*
Brown Pelican - 1
Double-crested Cormorant - 3,977
Great Blue Heron - 1
Laughing Gull - 130
Bonaparte's Gull - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 117
Common Tern - 3
Forster's Tern - 32
Royal Tern - 32
Total: 24,580
Monarch: 1
Other birds of note: Golden Eagle and Orange-crowned Warbler
*This denotes a new single day record for Northern Gannet at the Avalon Sea Watch. The peak hour of movement occurred between 11:38am and 12:38pm when 5,992 were counted moving south. To put this in perspective, the previous single day record of Gannet was set last year when 7,685 were tallied in a full day!
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